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As part of a commitment to education, the Wheatsheaf pub and King Edward VII School had to make way for a new College of Advanced Technology on Market Hill in 1957.

A Saxon hill village, known as Gumeninga Hergae, or the shrine of Guma's people, in 767, it has now become well and truly subsumed into suburbia, and into Betjeman folklore through his poem of the same

HIGH on the hill at the top of Margate High Street is the parish church of St John the Baptist, which has served generations of Margatonians for nearly 1000 years (see 27445).

Houghton House sits on a hill facing towards Ampthill. Lady Pembroke, Sir Philip Sidney's sister, built the house between 1615 and 1621.

The church nestles halfway up the hill, surrounded by trees, and facing outwards to the town. It was built as a Chapel of Ease to Blackburn.

The lorry climbing the hill belonged to Grabham's Transport. This view is south-eastwards, towards Bridport, from Gear's Garage with its AA and RAC signs (far right).

Rye sits huddled around a small hill, on the top of which stands St Mary's Church with its distinctive squat Norman tower.

The famous street Steep Hill, the most aptly named street in England, is down to the right.

Further up the hill is the bow-fronted Three Cups Hotel (centre).

The first settlement in this central valley was 'Aemethyll' in Old English, which translates to 'ant-heap' or 'ant-infested hill'. As

They were escorted over the hills by the Earl of Ilchester's Yeomanry after spending a couple of nights at Melbury House.

The famous street Steep Hill, the most aptly named street in England, is down to the right.

The focal point of Forty Hill in the 16th century was the great house of Elsynge, which lay between the site of Forty Hall and the Turkey Brook.

Edgeside Estate developed over and around it, sad to say swallowing up a horse trough which was fed from a spring in the hills and was thus never empty.

Oak Hill Park was Accrington's second park, and the land was purchased bu the Corporation from Reginald Hargreaves for £12,000 in 1892.

We cannot leave Berkhamsted Place without mentioning the Great Barn at Castle Hill Farm, the home farm of Berkhamsted Place.

profitable use for the local land had swept away the old rabbit warrens by 1800; the only trace of them left is the reference to the Warren Footpath on old pictures of the riverside from Marble Hill

His brother Michael joined in 1953, going to work on Whipperley Ring school at Farley Hill. Like their father, they had trained at Regent Street Polytechnic.

This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road.

Locally named the Pepperpot, it was erected in 1850 on Hoad Hill to commemorate Ulverston-born Sir John Barrow, a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society.

(Marion Hill) The Pennyland Boat Basin.

The market was closed in October 1886 and trade moved to join the Sheep Market, which was already well established in Market Hill.

The name Corless is associated with the family who lived at Springfield House, Pilling.

In 1960, at nearby Stoney Hill, bricks were still being made by hand. Four brick makers were moulding and firing about 3,200 bricks per day.